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Regarding Northern Transylvania, the Romanian census from 1930 counted 38% Hungarians and 49% Romanians, [109] while the Hungarian census from 1941 counted 53.5% Hungarians and 39.1% Romanians. [110] The territory of Bácska had 789,705 inhabitants, and 45,4% or 47,2% declared themselves to be Hungarian native speakers or ethnic Hungarians. [ 110 ]
There are an estimated 14.5 million ethnic Hungarians and their descendants worldwide, of whom 9.6 million live in today's Hungary. [1] About 2 million Hungarians live in areas that were part of the Kingdom of Hungary before the Treaty of Trianon in 1920 and are now parts of Hungary's seven neighbouring countries, Slovakia , Ukraine , Romania ...
The Hungarian Croats (Croatian: Hrvati u Mađarskoj; Hungarian: Magyarországi horvátok) are an ethnic minority in Hungary. According to the 2011 census, there were 26,774 Croats in Hungary or 0.3% of population.
While the Palóc have retained distinctive traditions, including a very divergent dialect of Hungarian, the Palóc are also ethnic Hungarians by general consensus. Although their origins are unclear, the Palóc seem to have some sort of connections with the Khazar , Kabar , Pechenegs , Cuman and especially with the Avar tribes.
Areas with ethnic Hungarian majorities in the neighboring countries of Hungary, according to László Sebők. [1]There are two main groups of the Hungarian diaspora: the first group includes those who are autochthonous to their homeland and live outside Hungary since the border changes of the post-World War I Treaty of Trianon of 1920.
The Hungarians in Székely Land, therefore, account for half (49.41%) of the Hungarians in Romania. When given the choice on the 2011 Romanian census between ethnically identifying as Székely or as Hungarian, the overwhelming majority of the Székelys chose the latter – only 532 persons declared themselves as ethnic Székely. [1]
The Székelys of Bukovina are a small Hungarian ethnic community with a complex history. They live today in the Tolna and Baranya counties of Hungary, in Hunedoara County , Transylvania [ 1 ] and Suceava County , Bukovina , both in Romania as well as in the Serbian province of Vojvodina .
Romani people in Hungary (also known as roma or Romani Hungarians; Hungarian: magyarországi romák, magyar cigányok) are Hungarian citizens of Romani descent.According to the 2011 census, they comprise 3.18% of the total population, which alone makes them the largest minority in the country, [21] although various estimations have put the number of Romani people as high as 8.8% of the total ...